Plant-protector.



H. A. GIBSON. PLANT PROTECTOR. APPLICATION FILED MAY] 1917.

Emma Feb. 26,1918.

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HENRY ADQLPHUS GIBSON, 0F WINNIPEG, MANITOBA; CANADA.

PLANT-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lFelo. 26', 1919.

Application filedlillay 7, 1917. Serial No. 166,992.

7 '0 all whom itmag yconcer n Be it known, that. 1, Harvey; ApoLri-ms Ginson, of the city of Winnipeg, in the Provinceof Manitoba; Canada, have lnvent ed certain-new and useful Improvements in.

grubs, worms and other harmful agentsand the object of the inventionis toprovide a protector which. will effectively dothis work and which is arranged so that it canbe manufactured quickly and cheaply audsuch thati itwill be strong and durable, aipartioular feature residing in the fact that it isput together such that when in use it will not be materially affected by water or wind.

vVith the above object in view the invention consists essentially in. a protector arranged and. constructed: as hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claim, referenccbeing had:

to the accompanying drawing in whicl1=:-

Figure 1 represents a side view of the complete or finished protector.

Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view centrally through the protector as it appears when in the ground.

Fig, 3 represents a face view of the sheet from which the protector is made as it appears after the reinforcing flap has been turned down.

Fig. 4' represents a reverse View of the sheet shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 represents an end view of the sheet as it'appears in Fig. 4. V

Fig. 6 represents an enlarged detalled perspective view showing the manner in which the two ends of the sheet are brought together and fastened.

In the drawing like characters of refence indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. V

lln order to better understand the nature of this invention and the value of it I wish to refer to a prior patent granted to me under Number 1194992 for a garden tool and under date of August 15, 1916.

In this patent I disclosed a transplantlng device which was utilized to put a protective wrapper in the ground and around the young plant and the protective wrapper thereinrlisclosedwas simply astraight band of paper with the meeting edges overlapped and stuck. Atthat time it served to illustrate themanner in which the transplanting dev ce was used to implant the paper.

Smce that time I have. devised a paper protector-to be utilized inconncction with my transplanting device but which is made andput t0g6l3l19r-1ILSL1C119 way that it can be manufactured qulcklyand. in quantities.

and at small cost and will withstand the ele ments fora season when implanted in the ground.

The improved protector or wrapper fori'ns thesubject matter of this application. It is constructed in the. following way, reference being now made to thedr-awing:

1; represents a substantially rectangular sheet of paper which is first folded lengthwise to provide a reinforcing flap 2 which in depth is considerably less than the depth of theremaining orb ody part of theishect. After folding in this way the sheet is turned over and a sticking material. such as paste'or glue, as indicated at 3, is applied on one of the back upper corners, it being desirable, in applying this sticking material, that it terminate at the bottom a slight distance above the plane containing the then lower edge of the flap. This distance is represented at a in Figs. 4 and 5.

Next a folding, indicating line 4 is dotted on the front side of the sheet, (see Fig. 4:) which indicated line passes the full length of the sheet, is parallel with the lower edge thereof and is set up from the said edge.

The sheet is then taken in the hand and turned into a cylinder shape with the flap in and the glued end of the sheet is inserted between the flap and the body at the other end of the sheet (seaFig. 6) and in this operation it is desirable to insert the end of i the sheet so that the glued part is well lapped, that is to say, so that the edge of the glued part is well in from the receiving edge of the sheet. This is actually shown by the distance indicated at b (Fig. 6). Once inserted the sheet is pressed flat and rubbed at the joint. This spreads the glue and sticks the ends permanently together completing the wrapper and at this point I wish to bring out the value of having the clearing distance a and b. By providing these the sticking material, in the pressing to- V gether of the ends, will not be spread sufiiciently to reach eitherthe overlying edge of the sheet or extend beyond the lower edge ofthe flap.

Accordingly the joint as formed'by the a sticking material is in and fully protected by the extendingpaper from water, such as occurs when the plant is being artificially watered or when it rains. r 7

Further in themanufacturing of these in quantities the two sides of thewrapper would be brought together when the glue was pressed and spread and in such anoper- 'ation there would be the probability of the twosides of the wrapper being stuck together if the glue were allowed to extend to the'lower edgeof the flap;

By keeping the sticking material back, the distance a as indicated, the glue cannot spread far enough to be exposed beneath the edge of the flap.

' waysu When the protector is to be used it is api plied on the holder, disclosed in my former 'Gopies of this patent may be obtained for exposed above the ground is reinforced, being actually double.

In manufacturing these wrappers in quantities a number of sheets would be laid on top of each other with their ends all equally set back a distance equal to the width of the sticking material which one wishes to have applied on the end of the sheet. The sheets would be all folded at once to provide the flaps 2 and after this had been accomplished all the sheets would be turned over and then, by utilizing a brush, one would draw it over the overlapping edges of the sheet to apply the glue. Afterward the individual sheets would be picked out, turned into the cylindrical shape and individually stuck.

What I claim as my invention is A plant protector comprising a substantially rectangular sheet of paper bent to form a cylinder with its adjacent edges overlapping, the paper at the ends of the cylinder being bent back on itself inside the cylinder and part of the overlapping portions spaced from the edge of the exterior sheet being glued together to form a joint the overlapping edges and one bent back end fitting closely to protect the glued joint.

Signed at Winnipeg, this 19th day of April, 1917.

HENRY ADOLPHUS GIBSON.

In the presence of- GERALD S. RQXBURGH, ROLAND Fos'rnn.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

